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OK, folks, here’s a somewhat more in-depth commentary on Drejka’s conviction last night: Last night “handicap parking spot shooter” Michael Drejka was found guilty of manslaughter, as charged, for the shooting death of Markeis McGlockton. The verdict was returned quickly last night, after the jury had deliberated only a few hours. Drejka shot and killed […]

I’m seeing a lot of excitement in the gun community about the decision this week out of the Michigan court of appeals, People v. Siwatu-Salama, excitement along the lines of the decision representing some significant expansion of self-defense rights. In fact, the decision does nothing of the sort, is no reason to get excited, and

Self-defense immunity is among the most misunderstood self-defense law doctrines, thanks largely to the “news” media and others who benefit financially and socially from fostering confusion about self-defense law. In fact, self-defense immunity is very straightforward in terms of black letter law, and we’ll explain that law in this post. It does get a bit

Today’s post is a re-play of my recent guest appearance on the EDC Life podcast. The episode runs about an hour and ten minutes, and covers a broad array of use-of-force law topics. Law of Self Defense LIVE ONLINE Class, August 24 Also, there are ONLY FOUR DAYS LEFT until our Law of Self Defense

The Florida “handicap parking spot shooting” trial of Michael Drejka starts this week, and accordingly news coverage of the case—by which, of course, I mean “media lying” about the case—can be expected to spike. An excellent example of such media lying is found in today’s lie-filled report by—no surprise—that festering sore of media lies CNN.

Today’s post is prompted by news reports of a murder trial currently taking place in Arkansas. What’s interesting about this trial is not so much the actual underlying evidence in the case, but rather the fact that this is the third time that this defendant has been subject to a murder trial for the same

In this new episode of “Calling the Shots” we cover in-depth the case of Dimitriy Andreychenko, the fellow who decided to shop at a Missouri Walmart with a long gun and body armor, was held at gunpoint by an off-duty firefighter, and has now been charged with first-degree terroristic threatening, a felony good for seven

Today’s post is prompted by a case out of a Chicago suburb in which an armed homeowner shot and killed a 14-year-old while confronting a group of youths apparently attempting to steal the homeowner’s car from his driveway. The news media is, of course, reporting this as a gun owner shooting and killing a “boy,”

Today’s post is prompted by a news story out of Indiana in which a man convicted of murder tried, and failed, to get his 73-year sentence reduced on the basis that errors were made in his trial. In denying relief the judge noted a particular characteristic of appeals generally, and one that in my experience

Today’s post is a quick, rather informal, response to a Facebook comment I received from a person known to me. The comment was in response to an opinion piece in the Washington Examiner that was critical of so-called “red flag” laws. The comment asked reasonably skeptical questions from the perspective of someone not well-informed on